Liquid-distributer.



PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907.

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A. KELLER. LIQUID DISTRIBUTER. APPLIOATION FILED APR. 11, 1906.

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A. KELLER. LIQUID DISTRIBUTER. APPLICATION FILED APR.11, 1906.

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ALFRED KELLER, or ST; CROIX, SWITZE LIED; ASSIGNOR To LOUIS PHIL- IPPE MERMOD, GUSTAVE ALFRED MERMOD, AND LEON MARCEL MER- MOD, COPARTNERS TRADING AS MERMOD FRERES, OF ST. CROIX, SWIT- ZERLAND.

LIQUID-DISTRIBUTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5,1907.

Application filed April 11, 190m Serial No. 311.119.

accompanying two sheets of drawings;

The invention consists principally in a mechanism for controlling the discharge of li uid. v

igure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a distributer embodying the improvements of my invention. Flg. 2 is a plan view of the plunger-cylinder. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the valve-support and outlet member. Fig.

4 is a plan view of the valve-spider. Fig. 5

is a plan view of the valvelate. Fig. 6 is a vert cal section of a somew at-modified construction embodying my invention, only a.

fragment of the li uid receptacle being shown. Fig. 7 is a si eelevation of the same detached from the liquid-receptacle. Fi 8 is a plan view of the plunger-cylinder. Fig. 9 is a horizontal sectional view taken just above the outlet-valve.

1 indicates the body of the receptacle for I containingtheprincipalvolume of liquid. In

' which is preferably secure the form shown this is a glass globe. shape of the receptacle and the material of which it is constructed is, however, immaterial. To the liquid-receptacle is attached the mechanism containing the inlet and outlet valves and supplying the measuring-chamber. 2 indicates t e upper art of thecase, g to the liquid-re ceptacle by a screw-threaded portion.

3 indicates the c linder, having the measuringchamber 4, t e inlets 5 5, and'the outlet 6. This is screwed into the casing member 2 and provides means for attachment of the lower member 7 of the casin In the bottom of the casing is located t outlet-- valve.

The

. 8 indicates a vertically-movable dischargenozzle forced upward by thespring 9.

10 is the valve-plate, supported by the spider 11 which in turn rests in the member 8.

12 indicates the outlet. Any liquid which is in the chamber 3 or outlet 6 is held back by the pressure of the valve-plate against the lower end of the cylinder 3, which is preferably reduced in diameter to make a tighter sea 13 is a plunger operable in the cylinder 4,

which passes through the cap 14 of the liquld-receptacle and hasa head 15, so that it may be readily operated by the hand.

16 is a spring normally holding the plunger or piston in its elevated position. The liquid-receptacle maybe readil filled b pouring liquid into the upper end of the ho ow plunger, which has an outlet 17-into the interior of the receptacle.

When it is desired to discharge liquid from the receptacle, the plunger 13 is pressed down. As soon as its lower end passes .the

inletorts 5 5 the liquid in the chamber 4 is force down. The pressure overcomes the pressure of the spring 9 and depresses the valve-plate 10 sufficient to unseat it. Continued downward movement of the plunger forces the liquid through the outlet 6 around the spider 11 into the interior of the valvesupport 8 and through the outlet 12. The downward movement of the plunger 13 con-- trols the amount of liquid discharged. A

greater or less amount of liquid may be obtained by depressing the plunger to a greater or less extent. ,The amount discharged is limited, however, to the capacity of the chamber '4.

On Sheet 2 is shown a somewhat modified construction. In this form the lower end 7 of the case is screwed on to the u per portion of the casing 2. The l er-cy inder 3 has long passages 5 5, lea g eneath the lower end of the plun er 13, when it is in its normal osition. helaterally-exten pivoted ever 15 is adapted to force the p unger down against the pressure of the spring 16. In this particular form the li uid-cliamber 4 is smaller than in the form illustrated in Fig. 1, and the outlet-passage 6 is formed in a separate .tip member 18. In-both cases, however, the valve member 8-is vertically guided in the casing, and the parts so fitted IQO tacle, a cylinder having a normal y open inlet in communication with said receptacle, a normally closed outlet, a plun er in said cylinder arranged to cut off said inlet whenadvanced, a valve at the outlet, a yielding nozzle support' said valve,,a liquid-pass e through said nozzle and beyond the va ve, andmeans to yieldingly move said nozzle toward said cylinder-outlet to close said valve against the same.

2. In a device of the character described,

. a cylinder, a plunger therein, a normally open inlet therein, an outlet, a valve for normall clos' the same, a spring-pressed yiel' ing nozz esupporting said valve, a discharge-passage through saidnozzle, and means or communication through said nozzle -and-around said valve and leading to said nozzle-outlet when said plunger is depressed.

3. In a liquid-distributer, a cylinder having rounding said nozzle for moving an inlet and. an outlet, a vertically-movable 3 valve for said outlet comprising a-supportin member having an outlet, a spider 1n sai support, and a valve-plate carried by said spi er.

a cylinder having an inlet and an outlet passage therein, a movable valve for said outlet comprising a combined movable valve-supportm member and discharge-nozzle, means 1n sai nozzle for carrying said valve and a passage through said nozzle and around the valve therein to afford communication with the outlet, a casing surroun said nozzle except at the end and a spring in the casing to move the nozzle to close the valve.

5. In a device of the character described,

a piston-cylinder an inlet, an outlet, a valve for said outlet, a combined yielding valvesupport and discharge-nozzle and a communicating passage leading from the valve proper to' said nozzle-outlet, a spring surit in a direction to cause the valve to close the outlet in the piston-cylinder.

' ALFRED KELLER. Witnesses:

L. M. Momma FRANCIS B. KEENE.

4. In a device of the character described, 

